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Matt McDonald, a Boston-area native, has decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and copy editor. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
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A bill that would bring ranked-choice voting to most elections in Vermont has only six co-sponsors in the 150-member House of Representatives. Ranked-choice voting takes into account voters' second and third choices in cases where no one wins an outright majority of votes. A typical way of doing it
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The mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire has vetoed a proposed ordinance that would allow store owners to control the area of sidewalk in front of their store, effectively letting them kick out homeless people, after getting threatened by the American Civil Liberties Union. The city council of New Hampshire'
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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is one of 20 Democratic state attorneys general filing a lawsuit in federal court challenging the Trump administration's new regulations requiring health clinics that receive federal Title X money for contraception for poor people not provide information and referrals concerning abortion. The regulations
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Federal officials haven't said why it took them 17 years to realize that a central Massachusetts man was keeping Social Security payments meant for his deceased father. David K. Brunell, 57, was sentenced to three years' probation in U.S. District Court in Worcester on Tuesday, March
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Longtime Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek is asking for prayers while disclosing he has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Trebek, 78, says he plans to continue working, and joked that he has to beat cancer because his contract says he has to host the show for three more years.
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An exchange between two men who have felt same-sex attraction but have sharply different takes on it highlighted nearly three hours of testimony about a proposed ban on conversion therapy at the Massachusetts State House. Ken Williams, a California man who co-founded Changed, an organization of men and women who
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Jay Barrett of West Haven, Connecticut is in the end stages of cystic fibrosis, but he had something he wanted to do before he dies: have some contact with President Donald Trump. So his sister, a member of the city council of West Haven who describes herself as "100
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The Yarmouth Police Department police honored fallen Sergeant Sean Gannon with several posthumous awards on Friday. Gannon, 32, was shot and killed April 12, 2018 in Marstons Mills on Cape Cod while trying to arrest a career criminal wanted on a warrant.